Caution to the Wind (The Fallen Men, #7)

by Giana Darling

Rocky because I was scrappy and loyal. He said people were prone to underestimate me due to my slight and dainty build, but they’d inevitably find out some day that I was a champion. Glory because Cleo’s full name was Cleopatra, which meant “glory of the father,” and Cleo was his pride and joy.

“Your name means elegant pearl, doesn’t it? Like the pearl seen beneath the Chinese dragon’s chin or clutched in its talon.”

“The marriage line is too long,” she added. “Your reputation or theirs will be affected by this union. You are not very lucky, daughter. Not in love.”

“Because there is strength in softness too. There is purity, success, and happiness in finding balance between yin and yang. If you don’t learn this, the tragedies of your life will overtake you.”

“In real life, Dr. Axelsen, white knights rarely get happy endings. Only broken hearts.”

Looking back, that was the start of it for me. Falling in love with him. Ruining his life. They would become one and the same, but right then, it was pure and simple. I loved him the way a child loved a superhero.

I wasn’t a stranger to rough play in the bedroom. In fact, I loved the physicality of sex the same way I loved the physicality of martial arts. I wanted to fight and fuck, bite and suck, groan and whimper.

“Be still while I worship you.”

“Be good for me, Rocky, and I’ll take you as close to death as pleasure can get ya.”

“A knight is just a person who always tries to be better and do their best, even if they don’t always succeed. The goodness of a soul should be determined by the attempts it makes to do right just as much as for its successes.”